The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-09-16
THE WORLD AT LARGE.

THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF tho Daily NewA
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The President on the 9Th appointed Sam
uei T. Williams, of Maryland, to be United
States Secretary Of Legation at Brazil He
also signed the commissions of the follow
ing naval officers: D. Braine, to be Rear
Admiral; George Brown, to be C0mmo-
dorc; Il. B. Roteson, to be Captain, and B.
F. Tilley and B. 3. Richards, to be Lieuten-
ants Commanders.
BENTON J. HALL, Commissioner OF Pat
ents, in his synopsis of his annual report,
says that at the end OF the last fiscal year
the Office was well up with its business.
The number Of applications for patents was
l167S, against 81, 4O6 the previous fiscal year
THE issue Of swamp land patents in Min
nesota has been suspended by Acting Sec
rotary of the Interior Muldrow, pending
investigation into alleged frauds.
ACTING SECRETARY THOMPSON recently
opened the fifth lot Of proposals for the
sale of ~ per cent. bonds to the Govern
ment. The aggregate was $2,6s5,5 800 at
from los p to L10 The tenders were all
rejected as too high.
The Acting Secretary of the Interior has
requested the Attorney General to institute
suit against the following parties in Mon
taua for unlawful fencing OF the public
lands: George Watkins, George H. Good
win, Joseph N. Ba-inger, Sidney Padget,
Carpenter Il Robertson. John N. Bean, the
Niobrara Cattle Company, the Green Mount
ain Ranching Company, the Bull Mountain
Cattle Company, Samuel Coffman, Jr., Dill
worth and David J. Kennedy.
The Irish Catholic Benevolent Union at
Washington on the Sth elected the follow
ing officers: President, Michael Glennan, of
Norfolk, Va; first vice-president, j. j. Be
han, Kingston, Pa. second vice president,
Rev. Father William Walsh, of Memphis;
secretary, Martin J. Griffin, of Philadelphia;
treasurer, Rev. James Henry, of st. Louis;
executive committee, Walter Walsh, of 81.
Louis; William II. Kelly. Columbus, O.;
n. B. Harlow, Alexandria, Va
THE EAST.
THE final heat between Teemer, Hamm
and Bubear, in the regatta on Seneca Lake,
Watkins, n. Y, was rowed on tho 9Th.
Teemer led throughout and won by a
length, Hamm second and Bubear third.
ROBERT BARTON, Q manufacturing jewell
er of Providence, r l., has called a meet
ing of bis creditors. His liabilities were
estimated at 100000.
W. B. MCKEE, of Railway, N. J., has been
elected president and S. K. Baughman, OF
Camp Point, ILL.,, secretary and treasurer
of the Railway Mail Service Benevolent
Association
A PANIC occurred during the perform
ance of "Erminic'' at the Casino, New
York, on the night of the 9Th, caused bya
false alarm of fire. There was q wild
plunge Of part of the audience for few
seconds, but it was stopped by the police
and order restored without serious conse-
quences.
ADvIcss from Saratoga, Worcester, Bing
hampton and Norwich, n. Y, and Haver-
hill, Mass, reported on the 7th extremely
violent wind storms accompanied by the
heaviest downpour Of rain experienced in
years
The Grant locomotive works at Paterson.
n. j., were on fire on the 9TH. Loss, $780,
600. Six hundred men We're thrown out of
employment.
THE Esw Haven Conn Wire Company.
which l. involved in the E. S. Wheeler
iron failure, has been placed in a receivers
hands.
AN explosion occurred on board the
schooner War Eagle, loaded with naphtha,
at Boston, recently. The vessel was COM
pletely burned, together with bridge and
Platte Washburn's factory adjoining. A
man named Henry O'Donnell was burned
TO death. and the steward jumped over
board and was drowned. The captain and
mate were very badly injured, and four
1nnc hnr 1ocS 1,y,r
EXECUTIONS for $40 900 have been issued
against McFall, HeIzel & Co, extensive
lumber dealers of Pittsburgh, Pa
MANCHESTER, n. H., has developed min
iature reproduction of the London scandal
exposed by the Pal Mall Gazette. The per-
sons implicated embrace well-known bus
mess and professional men and four young
girls, whose ages range from eleven to six
teen years. The exposure came about
through the confession of one of the girls.
NORMAN E. MACK, president of the Buff.
falo IN. W Evening" Times Company Qimit-
ed) has notified his employees that the Office
would pay the union scale and employ none
but union men. The Times had been q non.
union Office for two years.
RUMsEY Bros, shoe manufacturers oil
Lynn, Mass, who have been in trouble
with their employees for year, have finally
greed to employ only union men and
accede to tine terms of the State Board oil
Arbitration.
DELEGATES from about sixty labor ane
political organizations of socialistic tenden
cies met in New York recently and formed
a new political party in opposition to Henry
George. 1t is to be known as the Progress
sive Labor party.
DURING the tornado in the Schoharie val
ley. n. Y, on the 9TH, several persons wer,
injured. hop yards destroyed, crops ruinet
and some stock killed. Fifty barns wer,
unroofed, and Alfred ". Grifford's hous'
at Southburne was demolished
JUDGE WILLIAM s. GARDNER, Of the Su
preme Court of Massachusetts, has resigne,
and Judge Marcus P. knowlton, Of the Su
perior Court, has been named as his sue
cessor.
Four hundred and fifty Mormons iron
England, Scandinavia and Germany lande'
st New York on the sth in charge Of Johl
Isaac Hart, Of Utah, bound foc that Terri
tory.
New JERSEY Prohibitionists met at Trer
ton on the Sth, and resolved, among othe
things, that their candidates must be inds
pendent of other existing parties.
PENNSYLVANIA brewers have formed q
organization for political work.
UNKNOWN thieves near Lewiston, Ne.
recently stole 5000 belonging to q fa-me
named Decker and destroyed the kous
with fire.
F. c. DAVENPORT, q dealer in metals, Bos
ton, is in financial straits caused by E
Wheeler & Co.'s collapse. His habilitie
are placed at sl00.00J.
The New York Centrals earnings il
August were 1851 ,347 larger than in the sam
month last year.
The corner stone of the New York Cor
Solidafed Stock and Petroleum Exchang